Hiromichi Shinohara
Hiromichi Shinohara was the highestscoring fighter ace of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service . OnJune 1939 he set a Japanese record by downingplanes on a single day. He was shot down and killed onAugust 1939, having claimed 58 victories in only three months of combat. He scored all his aerial victories while flying a Nakajima Ki27.
Hiromichi Shinohara was born in August 1913 on a farm in Suzumenomiya, near Utsunomiya in the Tochigi Prefecture. After finishing his formal education he went into military service, joining the 27th Cavalry Regiment in 1931. In that capacity he took part in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and was involved in the Jiangqiao Campaign in April 1932.
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